On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Cameron Booth <cameron.booth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>> I think I may have partly found my own answer.
>> Looking at this gist http://gist.github.com/14050 by Andy Freeman, it seems
> to do much of what I'm looking for right now (thanks, awesome!!).
>> But playing around with it a bit, calling self.described_type which I
> thought would return the class, it's not, it seems to be looking only for a
> module?
>> def described_type
> description_parts.find {|part| part.is_a?(Module)}
> end
>> Is there something I'm missing?
Some example groups describe modules, some classes. RSpec supports
both, and Module does it:
$ irb
>> module Foo; end
=> nil
>> Foo.is_a?(Module)
=> true
>> class Bar; end
=> nil
>> Bar.is_a?(Module)
=> true
whereas Class does not.
HTH,
David
Cheers,
David
>> Cameron
>>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Cameron Booth <cameron.booth at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>> New to the list, so apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I
>> didn't find it. I'm trying to build up a plugin of useful rspec macros for
>> rails development, eg. things like:
>>>> it_should_return_success
>> it_should_redirect_to { some_url }
>>>> I'm basing my ideas off of some stuff technoweenie has done, as well as a
>> few others.
>>>> One thing I'd love to do is be able to figure out the model class in a
>> rails model spec, so I can do something like:
>>>> describe User do
>> it_should_validate_presence_of :name
>> end
>>>> I can get it working if I pass in User as an argument:
>>>> describe User do
>> it_should_validate_presence_of User, :name
>> end
>>>> but that feels redundant. Is there a way to access the class itself that
>> I'm missing? On the controller spec side, I see there is
>> controller_class_name, but that needs to be set with the controller_name
>> method. I could go for something like that if required, but somehow it seems
>> like it would be overkill.
>>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!
>>>> Cameron
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